Personal
January 28, 2026
The People Most Likely to Be Harmed by AI Are the Same Ones Who Need It Most
Personal
January 26, 2026
The Infrastructure Behind “Creating Consciousness”
Personal Essays
January 24, 2026
Why Rucking Taught Me More About My Brain Than Any Productivity Book
Personal Essays
January 22, 2026
The Discipline Paradox: What 30 Years of Searching Finally Taught Me
AI & Technology
January 20, 2026
How I Use AI to CREATE Consciousness
Personal Essays
January 18, 2026
Why I Can’t Text You Back
AI & Technology
January 07, 2026
Harnessing the Surge
Health
January 05, 2026
What My Brain Scan Taught Me About Enlightenment
Research
December 13, 2025
The Adaptive Neurocognitive Architecture of ADHD
A comprehensive analysis of ADHD as evolutionary specialization, neural compensation, and distributed cognition — with 67 citations
Research
December 13, 2025
ADHD as Alternative Cognitive Architecture: A Summary
A personal synthesis of the research — what three years of systematic self-discovery revealed about how my brain actually works
Personal Essays
December 11, 2025
When Understanding Yourself Stops Making Sense to Everyone Else
Health
December 10, 2025
Your ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression Might Be the Same Thing
A million-person genetic study confirms: your "disorders" are probably a single cognitive architecture, not a collection of failures
Personal Essays
December 10, 2025
What I Can't Build My Way Out Of
On discovering that my greatest strength might also be my most sophisticated defense
AI & Technology
December 08, 2025
An AI Asked Me About AI
Health
December 07, 2025
How I Use AI as My Personal Health R&D Department
Turning genetic data into actionable protocols — FUT2, supplements, lab panels, and the life model approach
Personal Essays
December 07, 2025
When Understanding Yourself Stops Making Sense to Everyone Else
The Logical/Social Divergence — on the gap between knowing your architecture and explaining it to others
Personal Essays
December 06, 2025
The Mind That Wouldn't Stay Still
AI & Technology
December 05, 2025
An AI Asked Me About AI
My unfiltered conversation with Anthropic's research team — conducted from a hot tub, with my mask off
Personal Essays
December 04, 2025
The Mind That Wouldn't Stay Still
How a leaky bucket, an AI, and a hot tub changed everything — the origin story of AIs & Shine
Personal Essays
June 23, 2025
Why I Haven't Written in Your Birthday Card
AI & Technology
June 20, 2025
Yeah, AI Can Be Dangerous
Personal Essays
June 16, 2025
The G-Word
Personal Essays
May 07, 2025
Meet Your Relationship Co-Pilots
AI & Technology
May 04, 2025
Digital Diplomats
Personal Essays
May 02, 2025
Upgrading Our Arguments
AI & Technology
April 30, 2025
AI as Our Relationship Translator
Personal Essays
April 28, 2025
Helping Jon Unpack His Core Beliefs About Relationships
Personal Essays
April 26, 2025
Human Onboarding for Personal Transformation
Personal Essays
April 24, 2025
Share Your "Life Model," Skip the Small Talk
Personal Essays
April 22, 2025
My Wife vs. My AI: Who Knows Me Better?
Personal Essays
April 20, 2025
An AI Rates Our Relationship
A Vulnerable Look at Knowing and Being Known
AI & Technology
April 18, 2025
Beyond Algorithms
How AIs and Shine Unveiled a New Level of Connection with AI (and Myself)
AI & Technology
January 25, 2025
The Mirror of Bias
How Language Models Could Reflect Back Your Deepest Fears
Personal Essays
January 22, 2025
My Brain on Ayahuasca
A Neurodivergent's Quest for Deep Transformation (And What the Science Says)
AI & Technology
January 20, 2025
Beyond External Outputs
Why the True Power of AI Lies in Self-Understanding
AI & Technology
January 18, 2025
The Unintentional Wisdom of My Lisp
Embracing My Skewed Communication as a Gift
Personal Essays
January 10, 2025
Conscious Evolution
The Risks and Rewards of AI-Assisted Self-Discovery
AI & Technology
January 08, 2025
My Brother Called Me an "AI Monastic" and He's Right
Here's Why That Matters
Personal Essays
December 21, 2024
My Meditation is Different Than Yours
(And Why You Need Your Own, Personalized Version)
Personal Essays
December 21, 2024
Is My Kind of Different Too Different?
The Fear Behind the AIs and Shine Launch
Personal Essays
December 20, 2024
My Phone is a Mirror
213 Apps and the Mind That Uses Them
AI & Technology
December 12, 2024
The Ultimate Foundation for Working with AI
Why Product Management is a Blueprint for Innovation
Personal Essays
December 12, 2024
Designing Tools for a Flourishing Life
A Deep Dive into AIs & Shine's Comprehensive Toolkit
AI & Technology
December 12, 2024
The Perfect Partnership: 2e Minds and Generative AI
Why Twice-Exceptional Thinking Is Uniquely Suited to Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI
AI & Technology
December 12, 2024
The Browser Tab Brain
Understanding My Chaotic Symphony of Thought
Personal
December 11, 2024
AI, Autism, and Intimacy: A Neurodivergent's Journey as a Podcast Episode
with an Overview of "AIs and Shine"
Personal Essays
Preview
December 11, 2024
Hot Neurocomplex Summer of '97
A Twice-Exceptional Teenager's Journey
Health
December 11, 2024
What Jon’s Bookshelf Tells Us About the Neuroscience of Twice-Exceptional Minds
Reading Between the Lines of an Endless Quest for Mastery and Meaning
Health
December 11, 2024
Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration: A Path to Growth Through Paradox
How breaking down can build us back up—and why some of us wouldn’t have it any other way.
Personal Essays
December 11, 2024
The Paradox of Being Too Much and Not Enough
What happens when life feels both too easy and impossibly hard—and you’re driven to make sense of the chaos anyway?
Personal Essays
December 11, 2024
Unmasking Success: The Paradox of Authenticity in a Masking World
Stepping back, leaning in, and redefining what it means to thrive.
Health
Preview
December 11, 2024
High on THC: A Neurodivergent Perspective
How cannabis reveals the complexities of my mind and deepens connection.
Personal Essays
December 10, 2024
Intimacy in the Trenches
Loving with Neurodivergence and Trauma
AI & Technology
December 08, 2024
Foreword
Setting the Stage: Understanding the Mind Behind 'AI Gave Me Autism'